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John K. White - The Truth About Energy, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

The Truth About Energy

Our Fossil-Fuel Addiction and the Transition to Renewables

Av John K. White

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The transition to renewable energy is vital and fast-paced, but how do we choose which technologies to drive this energy transition? This timely book provides everyone interested in the renewable energy transition with an introduction to and technical foundation for understanding modern energy technology. It traces everyday power generation through history, from the Industrial Revolution to today. It examines the use of wood, coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, and nuclear to produce energy, before discussing renewable energy sources such as biomass, photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, wave, and geothermal. The book examines to what extent and how each technology can contribute to a clean, green infrastructure. The Truth About Energy explains the science and engineering of energy to help everyone understand and compare current and future advances in renewable energy, providing the context to critically examine the different technologies that are competing in a fast-evolving engineering, political, and economic landscape.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-02-08
  • Mått: 151 x 228 x 41 mm
  • Vikt: 1 050 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 722
  • Förlag: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 9781009433198
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John K. White is a physicist, writer, and educator, who has worked in the engineering, science, and education fields in Canada, the Netherlands, Ireland, and Spain. He is the editor of the website E21NS (Energy in the 21st Century News Service) and author of Do The Math! On Growth, Greed, and Strategic Thinking (2013, Sage). He was a lecturer in the School of Physics, University College Dublin, and the Department of Education, University of Oviedo, where he taught courses in atomic physics, optics, and science education.

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'White's writing convincingly glides between scientific and technological descriptions of energy and the social world in which those descriptions both form, and are formed by, that same science and technology. Part expose, part explanatory guide, the book provides an excellent and balanced foundation from which to understand the transitions we must undergo in our troubled relationship to energy. The analysis is thoroughly researched and not shy about naming names as it builds upon specifics. Now thrown into crisis mode, we face extremely consequential choices - digesting this book enables the reader to understand the social consequences of energy choices.' Kirk W. Junker, Vice Rector for Sustainability, University of Cologne

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